Sentences with phrase «footprints in wealthy countries»

The rapid growth of carbon footprints in wealthy countries led to concerns about carbon leakage — where climate mitigation policies in one country lead to increases in CO2 emissions elsewhere — and industrial competitiveness, because international mitigation targets were slated to apply to developed countries and not the Global South.

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Instead, people in wealthier countries should consider adopting «lifestyle and behavioural changes» to reduce the size of their carbon footprints, he adds, in order to offset the extra carbon cost of ending poverty.

They also showed that the fastest growth in human - footprint score was in middle - income countries, with some of the wealthiest countries experiencing slight decreases in average human influence.

Among those mechanisms: bilateral trade programs that let wealthy importing countries subsidize the production of carbon - neutral beef in poorer exporting countries, or the use of carbon offsets that people and companies to reduce their own carbon footprints by subsidizing the distribution of Mootral in developing countries.

For many people in wealthy countries flying is the activity with the greatest climate footprint.